Hello, On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, John Mulholland wrote: here's yet another way to this (with ecasound this time). First a script to trim one file: ecatrimsilence.sh: --cut-- #!/bin/sh # # description: removes silence from the beginning and the end # of a file # version: 20050807-2 # usage: ecatrimsilence.sh <inputfile> tmp=ecatrimsilence-tmp.wav if test -e $tmp ; then echo "error: temp file $tmp exists, unable to continue..." exit 1 fi if test ! -e $1 ; then echo "error: input file $1 does not exist, unable to continue..." exit 2 fi format=`ecalength -sf $1` echo "Trimming file ${1}." echo "Removing silence at the end..." ecasound -q -f:${format} -i reverse,${1} -o ${tmp} -ge:1,0,0 -b:256 rm -f ${1} echo "Removing silence at the beginning..." ecasound -q -f:${format} -i reverse,${tmp} -o ${1} -ge:1,0,0 -b:256 rm -f ${tmp} echo "Done." --cut-- You can apply this to multiple files by doing for example something like (in the directory where the *.aif files are): bash> for i in `find . -type f -name \*.aif` ; do ../ecatrimsilence.sh $i ; done -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

Arnold Krille wrote: Looks nice. Will it react to control change messages? -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk

Atte André Jensen wrote: libxext-dev?

2005/8/6, Atte André Jensen &lt;atte.jensen(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: As far as I remember: Fix the library paths in /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig... And: currently it doesn't listen to midi-messages. I am currently (apart from moving, uni and job) working on OSC-support but it might take a while until the next release :-( Arnold -- Wenn man mit Raubkopien Bands wie Brosis oder Britney Spears wirklich verhindern könnte, würde ich mir noch heute einen Stapel Brenner und einen Sack Rohlinge kaufen.